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EMPEROR DOMITIAN Ancient Roman Coin 1st Cent. AD Silver Keychain
Located in Roma, IT
This sterling silver keychain proudly holds an authentic Roman bronze coin from the 1st century AD, featuring the likeness of Emperor Domitian. Adorning the reverse side of the coin ...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman More Objets d A...
Materials
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Pliny
s Doves Micromosaic
circa 1850
Set in a 24 Karat Gilded Bronze Box
Located in Roma, IT
In this 24 kt gilded bronze box with hand-painted floral motifs is set a beautiful micromosaic (circa 1850) depicting the Pliny's Doves.
The "Vatican Mosaic Studio", in which this mi...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Boxes and Cases
Materials
Bronze
Sterling Silver Wine Glass Elephant, One of a Set of 12 Different Animals
Located in Roma, IT
This elephant is one of 12 exclusive Serra's sterling silver "stirrup glasses", (weight 360 gr ) models date back to around the mid-1900s, and represent 12 animals that can be placed on the table to serve wine.
Our 12 glasses are now used to be added to other crystal glasses, maybe to serve a special wine!
In this difficult historical period for our health, drinking from silver glasses is really a great help: silver is rich in antibacterial and antimicrobial properties that eradicate the bacteria and antibiotic-resistant pathogens. It can be used as a natural disinfectant of any liquid.
Silver is a natural immunity booster . Its nanoparticles create an immunomodulatory activity that gives you a healthy immune system.
Popular since the late 18th and 19th century, antique silver stirrup cups...
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2010s Italian Figurines and Sculptures
Materials
Vermeil, Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Binder Clip with Authentic Roman Coin Depicting Antonia Augusta
Located in Roma, IT
This sterling silver binder clip is an exclusive Serra model, created at the end of the 1980s and always reproduced ((using authentic and different Roman coins) because it is an ele...
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2010s Italian Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Stirrup Cup Wine Glasses Depicting a Fallow Deer
Located in Roma, IT
This fallow deer is one of 12 sterling silver "stirrup" glasses ( vermeil inside ) , whose models date back to around the mid-1900s, and represent 12 animals that can be placed at the table to serve wine.
Most popular in the late 18th and 19th century, antique silver stirrup cups...
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Vintage 1940s Italian Vanity Items
Materials
Sterling Silver
"Barcaccia" Fountain Herend Porcelain Centerpiece Exclusive for SERRA
By Herend
Located in Roma, IT
This reproduction of Bernini's Barcaccia, located near the Spanish steps in Rome, was made by Herend exclusively for the Serra shop, using a sterling silver model that Serra had created (with the help of the artist Foscolo Benedetti), and had then supplied to Herend. The director of the prestigious Hungarian manufacture, a great lover of Italian history and art, was so enthusiastic about the model that he proposed making it an elegant and unique centerpiece, exclusive for Serra, which can be decorated with all the famous Herend decorations. Here we see the "Victoria" decoration, made at the end of the 19th century for Queen Victoria, and still used by the English royal house.
Pope Urban VIII commissioned Pietro Bernini in 1623 to build the fountain as part of a prior Papal project to erect a fountain in every major piazza in Rome. The fountain was completed between 1627 and 1629 by Pietro possibly along with the help of his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini, especially after his father's death on August 29, 1629.
The sculptural fountain is made into the shape of a half-sunken ship...
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1990s Figurines and Sculptures
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PERIOD: After 1950
ORIGIN: Navajo, Southwest
SIZE: Total Belt Length 62 1/2" Leather; conchos 2 1/4"D
The word “concho” sometimes spelled “concha”, comes from the Spanish word meaning shell. Some of the first “conchos” were made of melted silver dollars and resembled a shell. Concho belts reportedly began appearing in Navajo country in the late 1860s. Other Native Americans including Zuni and Hopi also made traditional concho belts before long.
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The earliest concho belts are now referred to as “First Phase” belts. This style of belt was made before Native silversmith had learned much about soldering. The conchos were hammered out from melted coins, cut, and filed into shape, engraved and a diamond shape slot was cut out of the middle of the concho, with a bar left across the center of the diamond shaped slot for the leather loop. Conchos that required no soldering are generally thought to be made from 1860-1880.
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The timelines may slightly differentiate depending upon who you ask. Natives first had concho belts for personal use only, but around the turn of the last century, tourist demand had kicked in and a new outlet emerged.
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